Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Beautiful Eye, Consummate Professional

By John Taylor

ABC reporter John Taylor shares his memories of cameraman John Bean, who was killed in a helicopter crash on August 18.

Peer Support for Journalists

A video by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Dart Centre Australasia on how peer support programs help journalists deal with trauma.

Reckoning with Aftershock

By Bruce Shapiro

Journalists must confront the psychological aftershocks of traumatic events both as news and as occupational hazards.

Changing Journalism Culture Through Peer Support

At first blush, the cultures of journalism and the military seem as opposite as transparency and secrecy. But in one respect, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Navy are identical: They each have a robust peer support program designed to deal with the emotional stress of working in a realm of violence and death. More »

Tips for Staying Sane

"It just doesn't go out of the brain." Onscreen, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation editor described watching footage of a beheading in Iraq. At a brown bag lunch at the Columbia Journalism School on Oct. 30, students watched a DVD chronicling journalists' experiences covering traumatic stories, from accidents to terrorism, and then discussed how to manage such occupational stress with two of Australia's leading experts on the subject. More »

Khmer Rouge Trial Reawakens Old Horrors

By Trina McLellan

Three decades after the end of the deadly Khmer Rouge regime, the first of Cambodia's genocide trials has finally begun. More »

Trauma and the Tipping Point

On the latest edition of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Correspondents Report," host Elizabeth Jackson asks senior journalist (and Ochberg Fellow) Lisa Millar and foreign affairs editor Peter Cave about their most fearful reporting experiences. But the stories that they tell of threatening soldiers and beheaded suicide bombers aren't necessarily the ones that most moved them. More »

Covering Tragedy

ABC Radio

2007 Ochberg Fellow Lisa Millar talks about trauma journalism on the National Media Report.